Related research

Pointers to papers, research projects, or other "science" stuff related to the scientific part of Software Heritage (AKA: the "CERN" of software engineering)

• Hash studies
  • appropriateness study from the [1]
• Boa: mining ultra-large-scale software repositories (language/infrastructure for software mining)
• Dremel: engine used to process GitHub Archive queries
  • paper: Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets
• GitHub Archive
  • paper presentation: Analyzing Millions of GitHub Commits
• GHTorrent
• PLINY: bayesian auto-completion for code
  • news article: Next for DARPA: ‘Autocomplete’ for programmers funded by Darpa (11M$), at Rice University, as part of the MUSE project from Darpa

Digital preservation, digital dark age

• Avoiding "Bit Rot": Long-Term Preservation of Digital Information, Vinton Cerf, Proceedings of the IEEE, June 2011, pages 915-916
• The digital dark age, David Anderson, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 58 No. 12, Pages 20-23, December 2015
• Castagné, Michel. Consider the Source: The Value of Source Code to Digital Preservation Strategies. iSchool Student Research Journal 2.2 (2013): 5.
• Brian Matthews, Arif Shaon, Juan Bicarregui, Catherine Jones. A Framework for Software Preservation. International Journal of Digital Curation, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 91-105, 2010.

Informal publications

• Jonathan A. Rees, Digital preservation and independently held copies (blog post)
  • about the need of being redundant all the stack down, spanning things like domain registration, DNS, etc.

Searching/grepping

• Regular Expression Matching with a Trigram Index or How Google Code Search Worked
• livegrep
  • Regular Expression Search With Suffix Arrays